{"id":1810,"date":"2019-06-02T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2019-06-02T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T16:16:11","slug":"june-2019-updates-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/june-2019-updates-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2019 Updates, Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pier-569314_1280.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pier-569314_1280.jpg 800w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pier-569314_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pier-569314_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/pier-569314_1280-405x270.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After several months of house projects and doctor\u2019s appointments and <em>more<\/em> appointments and travel and anniversaries and birthdays, here\u2019s June, sitting pretty wide open. I\u2019m looking forward to a few quiet weeks before going out of town again! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Writing Updates<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As mentioned last time, I really needed a vacation, so I took one. It was kind of a messy, on-off thing. I can\u2019t even tell you how many days it lasted. But I tell you what, I was <em>excited<\/em> to get back into things after a while. That\u2019s when I knew I was ready. The Book 3 draft is now up to 63K words in 13 chapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Goals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Well-rounded Latin practice.<\/strong> The Latin immersion seminar is only a month away! I just received the readings and itinerary we\u2019ll be following. For the whole week, I won\u2019t be able to speak anything but Latin with the other participants. Thank goodness dictionaries are allowed at all times! This will be taking place at a small, quiet college in the middle of my state. I went to a much bigger college in the center of a bustling urban environment, so it\u2019ll be interesting to have a taste of something much different to my experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Being a good Stoic.<\/strong> I don\u2019t have much by way of anecdote this month, but I do have a really cool <a href=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/swo1t4a7joz21.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Marcus Aurelius quote (opens in a new tab)\">Marcus Aurelius quote<\/a> we can all benefit from. Also, I highly recommend you spend some time in Nature when you can. Make friends with trees, birds, squirrels, rabbits, deer, or whomever or whatever else passes by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Listening to German.<\/strong> Not much new here, just trying to keep up with it when I can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Civic engagement.<\/strong> I voted in the recent primary election, and I helped out at another voter registration event this month. With my Latin seminar coming up, I\u2019ll be taking a break from those events for a few months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take care and see you next month! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After several months of house projects and doctor\u2019s appointments and more appointments and travel and anniversaries and birthdays, here\u2019s June, sitting pretty wide open. I\u2019m looking forward to a few quiet weeks before going out of town again! Writing Updates As mentioned last time, I really needed a vacation, so I took one. It was kind of a messy, on-off thing. I can\u2019t even tell you how many days it lasted. But I tell you what, I was excited to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/june-2019-updates-goals\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-ellis","category-sword-and-starship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1814,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellismorning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}